Throughout the inhabited galaxy, that spelled FATE. FATE meant Earth's trouble-shooter against the unknown sciences and alien psychologies of a thousand worlds. It meant: CAP KENNEDY Free Aching Terran Envoy Secret Agent of the Spaceways—a man of courage facing a hostile universe. ...

To the reptilian mind—especially the intelligent type of planets like Sergan and Obrac—the lives of others were as nothing to the need for status. To the feline mind—especially to the clever advisor of the master of Sergan—the agonies of others were not only of ...

"Destiny awaits the world of Metelaze. Mighty will be our future. To us will come the races of the galaxy. To us will come the wealth of a universe. "Too long have we rested beneath the Terran heel. Very soon now we shall strike off the chains of our oppressors. Metelaze shall be ...

Within the buried recesses of the human brain there lurk the ravening beast instincts of a million years ago. Thousands of years of growing intelligence and social culture had buried this deadly strain—until an alien science learned how to release the killer impulse of the Earth-born ...

The fate of a terror-ridden world brought all of Cap Kennedy's fabulous team into action, when Cap Kennedy himself was put out of action. Cap's body hung between life and death while his mind had been thrown a million years into the past. This left his remarkable team members to break ...

Contra-terrene matter—seetee as the astronauts call it—is the most dangerous substance in the universe. Reversely charged, when brought into cnntact with even the most stable of normal material, it will instantly disintegrate with a 100% energy diffusion. So when Cap Kennedy's ...

"Beyond that curtain of darkness lies paradise." That was the promise of the doorway known as The Gholan Gate, a doorway so ancient that its makers had vanished millions of years before the first Earthly life crawled out of the primeval oceans. It was still functioning in the possession ...

On a far semi-desert world, shunned by trade routes, and unattractive to star travelers, there is a barren and isolated valley. Dominating this valley is a great time-eroded Sphinx-like construction—a mass known to the few who have looked upon it as the Skull of Sykoris. Cap ...

It could have been a black hole—one of those terrifying rips in space that defy all laws. That it was artificial in origin did not make it any less deadly. Worst of all, that strange extra-galactic torus was drifting into an intersect with Earth in its orbit. The result would ...

Of all possible enemies, Cap Kennedy had yet to cross swords with the legendary masterly galactic villainy, Dr. Kaifeng. In the struggle for the mind of the tyrant of Papan, they finally met and Kennedy was the loser. There was only one chance to save the situation and that was to ...